Hazle Elizabeth Blakeney, a retired nationally known educator in nursing, died Thursday at Long Green Center in Baltimore after a long illness. She was 78.In a career that spanned more than 45 years, the Baltimore resident was a founder of associate-level education, or two-year college programs, in nursing. She retired in 1985 from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she had been professor and chairwoman of the graduate Department of Career Development since 1973.The daughter of the Rev. John and Valley Walker, she was born in Pittsburg, Kan. She completed nursing studies at Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing in Charlotte, N.C., and received a bachelor's degree in biology from Kansas State College.

By Nicole Fuller and Nicole Fuller,nicole.fuller@baltsun.com | July 16, 2009

An Annapolis municipal employee who oversees the city's minority and small business outreach has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city alleging she is the victim of sexual harassment and racial discrimination at the hands of her supervisor. Ruby Singleton Blakeney, the city's director of small and minority business enterprise, said that her direct supervisor, Mike Miron, director of economic affairs, has engaged in "petty, retaliatory behavior" since she filed the suit in federal court in Baltimore.

By Nicole Fuller and Nicole Fuller,nicole.fuller@baltsun.com | July 16, 2009

An Annapolis municipal employee who oversees the city's minority and small business outreach has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city alleging she is the victim of sexual harassment and racial discrimination at the hands of her supervisor. Ruby Singleton Blakeney, the city's director of small and minority business enterprise, said that her direct supervisor, Mike Miron, director of economic affairs, has engaged in "petty, retaliatory behavior" since she filed the suit in federal court in Baltimore.

On February 16, 2008, EVELYN ANNETTE. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Ave., on Friday after 12 Noon, where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 2 P.M. for the funeral service.

On September 3, 2005, REV. MILDRED DIANE BLACKWELL. The family will receive friends at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, on Monday, September 12, 2005, from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral Services will be held in the Sanctuary of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 214 S. Loudon Avenue, on Tuesday, family hour 10:30 to 11 A.M. Services to follow. Interment Lorraine Park Cemetery. Inquiries to 410-664-6800.L. BLAKENEY, age 93, of Millington, MD, died at the home of her daughter.

After twelve years in the business of arts sales and consulting, Ruby Blakeney has now established herself as an island of fine art by opening the Ruby Blakeney Gallery at Savage Mill.Now, visitors to the mill can see traditional works by American weavers, potters and glassblowers side by side with contemporary original artworks, limited prints, sculpture and lithographs by current local, national and international artists.Blakeney says that her gallery, which opened in September, will bring "another level of artwork" to the mill and "supply the needs of other people who are looking for this type of artwork," she said.

Savage Mill exhibit features 8 black artistsAn exhibition titled "Shades/Hues: Variations in Black" will feature the works of eight black artists through April 30 at the Ruby Blakeney Gallery at Historic Savage Mill.Artists represented in the show are Sam Gilliam, Joyce Scott, Oletha DeVane, Kimberly Camp, Lillian Burwell, Ulysses Marshall, Joyce Wellman and Lawrence Hurst.Known for his improvisational, draped canvasses, Mr. Gilliam has exhibited nationally and internationally. His most recent show was at Drysdale Gallery in Washington.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The bodies of three people were found yesterday in the rubble of the Federal Building here, and authorities said they were the last expected to be found from the April 19 bombing, which killed 167 people.The bodies are presumed to be those of Christy Rosas, 22, and Virginia Thompson, 56, employees of the credit union on the third floor of the nine-story building, and Alvin Justes, 54, a customer, the Oklahoma County medical examiner's office said.Ray L. Blakeney, a spokesman for the medical examiner's office, said that the bodies could not be definitively identified until today.

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Nebraska? That's been the problem for No. 15 Maryland's next opponent, Troy State, a team that proves football smugness isn't confined to Top 25 programs, but also extends to those new to Division I-A. Down the road, the Alabama school sees a conference affiliation, a new stadium, a rivalry with Alabama-Birmingham, perhaps, and some of the state's quality players coming its way. The end of...

On September 3, 2005, REV. MILDRED DIANE BLACKWELL. The family will receive friends at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, on Monday, September 12, 2005, from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral Services will be held in the Sanctuary of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 214 S. Loudon Avenue, on Tuesday, family hour 10:30 to 11 A.M. Services to follow. Interment Lorraine Park Cemetery. Inquiries to 410-664-6800.L. BLAKENEY, age 93, of Millington, MD, died at the home of her daughter.

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Nebraska? That's been the problem for No. 15 Maryland's next opponent, Troy State, a team that proves football smugness isn't confined to Top 25 programs, but also extends to those new to Division I-A. Down the road, the Alabama school sees a conference affiliation, a new stadium, a rivalry with Alabama-Birmingham, perhaps, and some of the state's quality players coming its way. The end of...

Annapolis Alderman Herbert H. McMillan is considering amending his controversial anti-loitering bill so that police could only ask drug offenders with at least two previous convictions to move along.McMillan, a Ward 5 Republican, said he started contemplating the amendment after a public hearing Monday night, where some people protested against the portion of his proposal that allows police to ask anyone convicted of drug possession, use or distribution to move along.Opponents argued that the bill would unfairly target those convicted long ago who had cleaned up their act afterward.

The bill seemed like a clear solution.Annapolis public housing residents wanted suspected drug dealers off their sidewalks. But police officers had no jurisdiction over the sidewalks, which are the property of the Annapolis Housing Authority.So Alderman Herbert H. McMillan studied the loitering laws of big cities such as Chicago and Baltimore, and decided Annapolis could use an ordinance allowing police to ask suspected drug dealers on public housing sidewalks to move along.But what the first-term alderman pitched as a simple fix has plunged him deep into the quagmire of racial tensions in America.

Hazle Elizabeth Blakeney, a retired nationally known educator in nursing, died Thursday at Long Green Center in Baltimore after a long illness. She was 78.In a career that spanned more than 45 years, the Baltimore resident was a founder of associate-level education, or two-year college programs, in nursing. She retired in 1985 from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she had been professor and chairwoman of the graduate Department of Career Development since 1973.The daughter of the Rev. John and Valley Walker, she was born in Pittsburg, Kan. She completed nursing studies at Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing in Charlotte, N.C., and received a bachelor's degree in biology from Kansas State College.

The bill seemed like a clear solution.Annapolis public housing residents wanted suspected drug dealers off their sidewalks. But police officers had no jurisdiction over the sidewalks, which are the property of the Annapolis Housing Authority.So Alderman Herbert H. McMillan studied the loitering laws of big cities such as Chicago and Baltimore, and decided Annapolis could use an ordinance allowing police to ask suspected drug dealers on public housing sidewalks to move along.But what the first-term alderman pitched as a simple fix has plunged him deep into the quagmire of racial tensions in America.

The manager of a Brooklyn Park Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet was accosted and held at gunpoint Sunday morning as a robber waited 14 minutes for the lock to open on a time-delay safe, county police reported.Manager Amy Blakeney told police she was getting out of her car about 8 a.m., preparing to open the restaurant in the 5700 block of Ritchie Highway, when a man with a dark handgun ran from the rear of the building and ordered her inside.The gunman told Blakeney to turn off the store alarm and open the safe.